What are some of your favorite settings in Git configuration files to make Git Fun?
What are your favorite Git configuration settings which make your life easy while working with Git? ...
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RAILS: Since I use Passenger, config.gem isn't allowed in the Rails:Initializers block. Why and what to change?
Hi, it's about Ruby On Rails. I want to use Googleauth and need to add a line starting with "config.gem" in the Rails:Initializers block in the environment.rb. Sadly, Passenger tells me that this would be an unkown command. config.gem "googlebase", :lib => 'google/base', :version => '0.2' What do I have to change to get, possibly be...
How do I configure Mercurial to use environment variables in mercurial.ini
How can I modify the mercurial.ini file to include an environment variable such as %userprofile%. Specific situation: I am learning to use Mercurial. I have modified the [ui] section of Mercurial.ini (in my home path) to include: ignore = c:\users\user\.hgignore Where user is my username literal. The .hgignore file includes filter...
[*nix, C] Library for internal software config managment
Hi! I am writing software, which allows simultaneous user access to configuration commands. And I want to include some kind of configuration management into it. So that one user can edit and then commit config, the other can see diff between versions. So I am looking for libraries, that implement these (or similar) functions. Can you r...
Best practice for storage and retrieval of error messages.
What is a best practice for storing user messages in a configuration file and then retrieving them for certain events throughout an application? I was thinking of having 1 single configuration file with entries such as REQUIRED_FIELD = {0} is a required field INVALID_FORMAT = The format for {0} is {1} etc. and then calling them from...
C# COM Component Fails To Read Config When Loaded Into An Unmanaged C++ App
I have a COM component written in C# that makes calls to ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(...). This component is instantiated inside an unmanaged C++ application. Every time, ConfigurationManager.AppSettings is unable to read the configuration file. There might be two problems. 1) What should the app.config be called when the app...
Java: which configuration framework to use?
Hi, I need to decide which configuration framework to use. At the moment I am thinking between using properties files and XML files. My configuration needs to have some primitive grouping, e.g. in XML format would be something like: <configuration> <group name="abc"> <param1>value1</param1> <param2>value2</param2> ...
WCF error from "System.ServiceModel.Administration.WbemProvider" in event log
Hi, we run a WCF service hosted in IIS7 on Win2k8. We see the following error in the event log. The WMI provider was not registered. WMI Object: System.ServiceModel.Administration.WbemProvider/65126532 Error:80041003 Process Name: w3wp Process ID: 10144 Which WMI provider has not been registered? What setup procedure was supposed ...
How to add service known types from external config file
Hello, I am having difficulty understanding how to exactly go about adding known types; for WCF, from a configuration file that is external to my wcf. I found an example of how to set the configuration file up, however, I am a bit confused as to the way the file is set up and I am not sure as to how I am actually supposed to call this ...
How to efficiently store and serve lots of small images on the web site?
On my web site I want to serve user a page with a lot of small pictures on it, kind of like thumbnails in Windows. All pictures are files ranging in size from 1KB to over 300KB, but usually no bigger than 5KB. Currently all those images are located in a folder on the web server (linux+apache), but I don't think this is the best solution...
How to avoid accidentally 'hg push' instead of 'hg qpush' ?
For those of you that use Mercurial with the MQ extension: This is the second time I accidentally submit changes to the central repository (hg push) instead of applying a patch to my working directory (hg qpush). I think this is very unfortunate, because it is a very simple error to make and has very severe consequences (the least havi...
How do I set ReliableSession.MaxPendingChannels when I create a NetTcpBinding in code?
We are getting this error: System.ServiceModel.ServerTooBusyException: The request to create a reliable session has been refused by the RM Destination. Server 'net.tcp://localhost:50000/' is too busy to process this request. Try again later. The channel could not be opened. As I understand it, I need to increase the v...
App.config / web.config editor easy config editor
I have a scenario where I am asking consultants to deploy 2 applications. A console application and an IIS web service application. Both apps form part of the solution. I haven't created an easy to use installer, but was wondering if there is an open source config editor that I can ship with my app that can read in "only certain" value...
How to tell which colorscheme a Vim session currently uses
You can set the Vim color scheme by issuing :colorscheme SCHEME_NAME but, oddly enough, you can't get the currently used scheme by issuing :colorscheme as this results in "E471: Argument required". I also don't see the color scheme listed in the output of :set. So how do you go about figuring out the current color scheme in use (o...
Windsor XML configuration of generics
Hi everybody! How do i setup the configuration in XML (for Windsor Castle) for the following class? public class Repository<T> : IRepository<T> where T : class { .... } I know how to do it in code but i must use XML file Thanks in advance ...
Should core application configuration be stored in the database, and if so what should be done to secure them?
I'm writing an application around a lot of hierarchical data. Currently the hierarchy is fixed, but it's likely that new items will be added to the hierarchy in the future. (please let them be leaves) My current application and database design is fairly generic and nothing dealing with specific nodes in the hierarchy is hardcoded, with...
Problem with .NET Settings.Reload() and Settings.Save() Settings not loading
I have a strange issue that I can't figure out. I have a custom settings class that inherits ApplicationSettingsBase. It has a user scoped settings as shown below. /// <summary> /// The Last Active Account /// </summary> [UserScopedSettingAttribute()] public AccountKeyClass ActiveAccount { get {...
SSIS - How to set 'RowDelimiter' and 'HeaderRowDelimiter' from XML configuration file?
Hi, I want to be able to configure the 'RowDelimiter' and 'HeaderRowDelimiter' values used by my Flat File Connection Manager using my XML configuration file. I've used XML config files with SSIS packages many times without any problems, and so I know my config file is correctly formatted and is being picked up by my package, but the p...
General Patterns for Managing Random Configuration Variables
Being the one always trying to boil things down to common patterns, I'm having a hard time figuring out the best and/or recommended ways of managing all those random properties throughout an application. I am looking for some SO wisdom. What are the random properties I'm talking about? Here's a small list: favicon alt text for rando...
StructureMap HowTo: Conditional Construction on Deep Object
I'm having difficulty conditionally creating a dependency. Googling, I have yet to find a good example of using the BuildStack and Conditional Predicates. Here's what I'm doing in the Registry: //snip public SomeRegistry() { this.InstanceOf<IFoo>().Is.Conditional( c => { c.TheDefault.Is.Constru...